The Movies That Moved Me: Ben Younger’s BOILER ROOM
Ben Younger’s turn-of-the-century answer to Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street” still hits. 💥
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The Movies That Moved Me: Paul W.S. Anderson’s MORTAL KOMBAT
It will be thirty years come Sunday since this movie hit the big screen in the U.S.. What are you watching this weekend?
MORTAL KOMBAT Sequel Is A Go At New Line
I don’t particularly stand in the majority here at Film Combat Syndicate amidst the reviews for Simon McQuoid’s feature directing debut, Mortal Kombat. With this, I can earnestly say I appreciate the dissent with regard to its merits as well as its flaws – the latter which ought to draw further conversations on how a sequel could be better improved. To that end, as for whether or not McQuoid is returning to helm the sequel remains to be seen. A sequel has been confirmed, nonetheless, as Mike Fleming Jr. reported exclusively at Deadline on Wednesday, along with word of Jeremy Slater (upcoming Disney+ series Moon Knight) joining New Line Cinema’s efforts in penning the screenplay. Slater replaces Greg Russo who wrote the inaugural script based on a story by Oren Uziel for the 2021 film which had long been in the works for a decade. Casting details remain pending, although […]
Mortal Kombat (2021) Review – Fumbling At The Controls
The year is 1992 and it’s a Saturday. I’m thirteen years old and, like most weekends during that time in my life, I’m at the mall. When I wasn’t at the food court horsing around with my friends, or rummaging through the shelves of movies at the music store, I was at the arcade. The arcade was typical of the time period- dimly lit with only the glow from the various machines adding any real illumination to the darken amusement-filled space. It was always crowded and noisy, electronic boops and beeps mixing with loud laugher and even louder conversations as people crowded around the various arcade cabinets. On this particular day the crowd seemed denser, the laughter and excited chatter even louder. Something was happening. I worked my way through the people and caught a glimpse of what the commotion was all about- there was a large crowd packed tightly […]
New Line’s TRAIN TO BUSAN Remake Lands ‘The Night Comes For Us’ Director Timo Tjahjanto
A little over a few years after New Line landed the rights, the long-brewing remake of Yeon Sang-ho’s hit 2016 zombie survival thriller, Train To Busan, officially landed a director in Timo Tjahjanto. A fitting choice in the horror arena, Tjahjanto is best known for his work as one-half of the ‘Mo’ Brothers working alongside filmmaker Kimo Stamboel for hits such as Macabre and Killers, and back-to-back Chelsea Islan-led May The Devil Take You and its 2020 sequel. Tjahjanto eventually got bit by the action bug in time to arouse audiences with brutal and increasingly bloody action showcases like Headshot (2016) and the highly celebrated The Night Comes For Us (2018). Timo is directing the new incarnation from a script by Gary Dauberman, who is producing via Coin Operated; Also producing are Atomic Monster’s James Wan and Michael Clear (Mortal Kombat) and Gaumont’s Nicolas Atlan and Terry Kalagian, with Judson […]
MORTAL KOMBAT: Ludi Lin Tapped To Play Liu Kang For New Line Martial Arts Game Adaptation
Following the addition of Joe Taslim for the role of Sub-Zero, word now hails from Rebecca Davis at Variety with talk of actor Ludi Lin for the role of Liu Kang in Mortal Kombat from Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema. Captured by martial arts champion and actor Ho Sung-Pak, Liu Kang is one of seven original characters that emerged in the game’s 1992 launch from former banner, Midway. The character is known as an exiled Shaolin Monk who ventures into the tournament to battle evil sorceror Shang Tsung for the fate of Earth. The games’ franchise success paved the way for New Line’s own live-action films in 1995 and 1997 with actor and martial arts star Robin Shou portraying the role. Following suit, TV origin spin-off series Mortal Kombat: Conquest aired along with an animated series, while a third film never got off the ground. Years later, webseries in […]
MORTAL KOMBAT: Pre-Production To Commence This Month In South Australia
Patrick Frater over at Variety is confirming the start of pre-production this month in Australia for award-winning commercial director Simon McQuoid‘s long-awaited adaptation of the hit game franchse, Mortal Kombat. According to the report, Steven Marshall, premier of South Australia confirmed the news in a press post alongside David Pisoni, South Australia’s minister for innovation and skills, and production consultan former Village Roadshow executive Greg Basser (The Whistleblower, Passengers). Greg Russo (The Highwaymen) penned the script which takes its cues from the hit game about a select handful of warriors competing in an epic tournanent for the fate of mankind against a ruthless warlord. Cast, crew and official story details remain pending apart from what’s been circulating the Twitterverse as there have also been tons of rumors and speculative reports on what could arise from this particular reboot – including rumors that this film was dead in the water. The […]
MORTAL KOMBAT Screenwriter Talks Up His Completed Script, Characters And More
This is gonna feel like such a tease, but the folks over at Discussing Film were able to get in touch with Greg Russo on his progress with the screenplay for the upcoming Mortal Kombat film. The script is complete according to the report, and for which Simon McQuoid remains attached to direct as he’s been since November 2016. The inquiry therein by Eric Moskowski delves into the issue of the overall tone in comparison of sorts to the Marvel movies, and also which characters Russo generally finds pivotal to the mythology – though it still remains to be seen if they’ll be the darn movie because the studio’s lips are remaining tighter the seals of the upcoming Mueller report. Here’s the full exchange: INTERVIEWER: “I want to get a feel for what the tone is going to be. Because in my eyes, I’ve always seen Mortal Kombat as kind […]
An Animated MORTAL KOMBAT Movie May Be Coming, And I’m Over Here Like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Â
No BS here. I really would need to see some footage or other at this point to be convinced that it’s absolutely gonna rock, but I could care less about an animated Mortal Kombat movie – even less so that it may only be allocated to an exclusive streaming platform as the latest report from Revenge Of The Fans so suggests. As such, that’s what appears to be the case for the last several days in the wake of other news that Warner Bros. is launching WarnerMedia in order to rival companies like Netflix and Hulu (in a market that already states isn’t quite benefiting the studio’s Digital shingle via the DC Universe app according to We Got This Covered). Mario-Francisco Robles (who I went to high school with 20 years ago) also reports that actors Joel McHale (Community) and Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter) are among the roster to possibly join […]
Vertigo/DC Comic Adaptation THE KITCHEN Now In Production
Vertigo/DC Today in news for folks ever roused by living in The Big Apple, principal photography is officially underway as of Friday in New York City’s famed Manhattan subsect, Hell’s Kitchen, for New Line Cinema’s gritty drama, The Kitchen. Oscar nominated Straight Outta Compton scribe Andrea Berloff is directing from her own script based on the Vertigo/DC Entertainment comic book series from creators Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle, and with a September 20, 2019 date stamped from Warner Bros. Pictures. Starring Oscar nominee Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids), Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip) and Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale), The Kitchen centers on three 1978 Hell’s Kitchen housewives whose mobster husbands are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia’s matters into their own hands—proving unexpectedly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition…literally. Also starring […]
Melissa McCarthy To Headline Action Comedy SUPER-INTELLGENCE For Summer Shoot
Fox Husband/Wife film duo, actress Melissa McCarthy and filmmaker Ben Falcone are readying a July start date for New Line Cinema action comedy, Super-Intelligence. As Borys Kit’s exclusive at The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday notes, the film will be their fourth collaboration in an actor/director capacity since Tammy (2014), The Boss (2016), and the upcoming May 11 release of Life Of The Party. In Super-Intelligence, McCarthy will play Carol Peters, a former corporate executive whose earnest yet unfulfilled life is turned upside down when she is selected for observation by the world’s first super-intelligence – an artificial intelligence that may or may not take over the world. The Boss scribe Steve Mallory is penning the script. Further casting and crewing remain pending for the actress who, before filming Super-Intelligence, will go into production very soon for dark, gritty, female centric Vertigo/DC comic adaptation, The Kitchen with fellow stars Tiffany Haddish and […]
New Line/DC Adaptation, THE KITCHEN, Joins Melissa McCarthy With Tiffany Haddish
Comedienne and actress Melissa McCarthy (Tammy, Spy) is taking her craft to a darker, grittier toned setting in The Kitchen, for New Line Cinema and DC Entertainment. As Mike Fleming Jr. over at Deadline notes, Straight Outta Compton scribe Andrea Berloff is setting forth her directorial debut here from her own script based on the 2014 limited series from author Ollie Masters. Here’s how Vertigo details the narrative: New York City, late 1970s. Times Square is a haven for sex and drugs. The city teeters on the verge of bankruptcy, while blackouts can strike at any moment. This is the world of THE KITCHEN. The Irish gangs of Hell’s Kitchen rule the neighborhood, bringing terror to the streets and doing the dirty work for the Italian Mafia. Jimmy Brennan and his crew were the hardest bastards in the Kitchen, but after they’re all put in prison, their wives – Kath, Raven […]
New Line's SHAZAM! Is Underway In Toronto
Monday saw the official production starts of New Line Cinema’s Shazam! from director David F. Sandberg. Zachary Levi stars in the title role along with Asher Angel as his young counterpart, Billy Batson, inspired by the Whiz Comics 1940 launch from creators Bill Parker and C.C. Beck. Scribes Henry Gayden and Darren Lemke penned the script as an origin tale that also has Mark Strong starring as the film’s principal villain, and with Toronto serving as the film’s Philidelphia, Pennsylvania backdrop. Previous rumors have stirred about as to whether or not executive producer Dwayne Johnson will make his appearance in the long held role of Black Adam for which he is expected to shepherd his own movie. I’ll leave that to the fans to contemplate but…this is the gist of it. We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In […]
Netflix And New Line Merge For Next SHAFT Film In A Possible Game-Changer For Movies
New Line Cinema is reportedly close to a major game-changing deal with Netflix over the forthcoming production of Tim Story’s new Shaft installation. The film was announced with the addition of Independence Day: Resurgence actor Jesse T. Usher leading the cast with Samuel L. Jackson and Richard Roundtree, all back and reprising their roles based on Gordon Parks’s inaugural 1971 action classic and John Singleton’s subsequent 2000 reboot. Provided the closure of the deal according to Deadline, Netflix is pony up more than half of the film’s $30 million-dollar budget in exchange for international streaming rights outside the U.S. two weeks after its U.S. theatrical release from New Line. The maneuver will then follow through on SVoD and DVD plans with Warner Bros to further stave off clashing interests with theatrical exhibitors in lieu of 90-day wait for ancillary home releases. According to the report, the deal also stems from […]
Christopher Lambert Talks New MORTAL KOMBAT Movie And A Possible Raiden Comeback
New Line Cinema Beware… I cuss a little bit here… Let me start off by telling you to forget what you think you probably already know or may have heard about Mortal Kombat regarding anything webseries or film. Most of the internet shit itself over a stupid fancast article that went viral citing how “they just cast the upcoming Mortal Kombat movie” or some dumb piece of shit headline like that. Shit like that pisses me off because it signifies how stupidhappy fans get over fake news – Even more so with respect to all things Mortal Kombat which is one film franchise I’ve been dying to see all the way through since it became a hit on the big screen in 1995 sans Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. No, we never saw a third occur as much as it was hyped about at the time and by 2010, all hope was […]
SAN ANDREAS Is Getting An Epic Sequel
I haven’t been keen on director Brad Peyton’s San Andreas yet, but I’m a little thrown off at the idea of destroying the same city for its sequel. Thankfully the direction here is far different with word that yes, surprisingly, that New Line is back in action with development of a follow-up to last year’s hit with Neil Widener and Gavin James providing the script. Dwayne Johnson and actresses Carla Gugino and Alexandra Daddario starred in last year’s disaster epic which saw the story of an L.A. air rescue pilot and ex-wife work to rescue their daughter amid the chaos of a devastating 9.1 magnitude earthquake that rocked Los Angeles and San Francisco. The plot for the sequel is nil, but is said to place its focus on the volcanic and seismically active “Ring Of Fire” that extends throughout the Pacific Ocean along the trenches of South America, the Western […]
New Line's ASTRO BOY Nabs 'San Andreas' Writers
A little over a year ago today, it was made official that Osamu Tezuka’s manga and anime classic, Astro Boy, would finally be on deck for a live-action feature of its own. Now the project is in full speed at New Line Cinema according to a new report from THR with word that San Andreas scribes Andrea Fabrizio and Jeremy Passmore will pen the script. Based on the classic story made popular in the 1950’s and 1970’s, the new film franchise will center on a robotic boy, built in the image of his creator’s deceased son, who is abandoned and taken under by a new scientist who enhances him with special abilities to use to fight the forces of evil. Australian production house, Animal Logic, known largey for its VFX work on projects like X-Men: Days Of Future Past, 300, The Matrix, The LEGO Moive and the upcoming Avengers: Age Of Ultron, is teaming […]
KEEP CALM, Mike Binder Is Directing His Debut Action Novel For New Line
Multifaceted and acclaimed filmmaker Mike Binder is triggering a throwback moment for me. We’re talking about someone who directed one of the wackiest comedies ever erected in the 1990’s, Blankman, and lately in recent memory he’s polished up quite nicely. Signature dramas such as Reign On Me and Black And White are worth noting to that end, and now it appears he’s begun making headway with his forthcoming debut action novel, Keep Calm. Henry Holt & Co. is publishing the new literary in February and word has it from Deadline that New Line Cinema has acquired the rights to the film which, in turn, Binder will write and direct. The book deals with a plot replete with intrigue and espionage when former Michigan cop, Adam Tatum, gets a golden opportuntity to attend a high-stakes conference at 10 Downing Street in London where the Prime Minister’s office is located. When a […]
New Line Kicks Off Its Vertigo Slate With Tom Hardy For 100 BULLETS
Much may have been up in the air as to whether or not actor Tom Hardy would be up for a comic book role after departing Suicide Squad long before filming. Alas, if there really indeed was, it appears that question has finally been answered. For this, we leer on over to a new report from THR announcing the Child 44 and The Dark Knight Rises co-star’s newly attached role in New Line Cinema’s first foot forward with Vertigo Comics properties, 100 Bullets. The award-winning comic property, created by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso, ran 100 issues between 1999 and 2009 and tells the story of Agent Graves, the perpetual driving force of a story of a man who, for reasons unknown, presents select recipients with a gun, a photo of the person who ruined their lives, and 100 rounds of untraceable ammunition. The Vatican Tapes scribe Chris Borelli is […]
DOES IT HOLD UP?: Johnny Cage vs. Scorpion In MORTAL KOMBAT (1995)
Mortal Kombat hit at a crossroads in action movie history, a time when audiences may have heard of Hong Kong action but probably had never seen it for themselves. There had been glimpses in the past; from the Golden Harvest produced TMNT movies to John Woo’s Hollywood debut, Hard Target. Hollywood had spent most of the 90s easing American audiences in to the kind of action that Hong Kong was known for and Mortal Kombat was the first to wear its influence proudly. The fight scenes blew our prepubescent minds, but none had quite as much impact as the film’s centerpiece, Johnny Cage vs Scorpion. Does this fight stand the test of time, or should it be lost to history? 20 years later, that spear just looks adorable…. THE SETTING This fight as well as Liu Kang vs Reptile from later in the film, were both choreographed by leading man Robin Shou… […]
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